sort pandas dataframe based on a column code example

Example 1: sort a dataframe by a column valuepython

>>> df.sort_values(by=['col1'])
    col1 col2 col3
0   A    2    0
1   A    1    1
2   B    9    9
5   C    4    3
4   D    7    2
3   NaN  8    4

Example 2: sorting rows and columns in pandas

df.sort_values(by="ColumnName", axis=0, ascending=False, inplace=False, kind='quicksort')
#axis 0 is rows and axis 1 is columns. For axis 0 by needs to contain column name

Example 3: dataframe sort by column

sorted = df.sort_values('column-to-sort-on', ascending=False)
#or
df.sort_values('name', inplace=True)